About
On this page, you'll find both long and short versions of my bio, written in the third person for ease of use.
Official short bio (50 words)
Alvy Carragher has published four books, three of which are poetry: What Remains the Same (2024), The men I keep under my bed (2021) and Falling in love with broken things (2016). She received the Irish Arts Council's Literature Bursary Award in 2022 to help support the writing of her most recent book of poems.
Official long bio (250 words)
Alvy Carragher is an Irish poet based in Dublin. She grew up in Galway and Tipperary and has since lived in Louisiana, Dublin, South Korea, and Canada. She has published three books of poetry: What Remains the Same (2024, The Gallery Press), The men I keep under my bed (2021, Salmon Poetry) and Falling in love with broken things (2016, Salmon Poetry). Her poetry has been archived by the National Poetry Archive and she has received the support of the Irish Arts Council's Literature Bursary Award (2022).
Her children's novel, The Cantankerous Molly Darling, won several reader's choice awards in Irish schools. As a performance poet, she was a featured reader at events like Electric Picnic, Edinburgh Fringe Fest, RTE’s Arena and Cúirt International Literary Festival. She represented Poetry Ireland, as the delegate for the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series in 2016, at a reading in the Lincoln Center, NYC. She earned an MA in Writing from the University of Galway.
She also won multiple national awards for her early writing as both the illustrator and writer for With All the Finesse of a Badger; a blog-based on the nature of growing up in rural Ireland. It was archived by the National Library of Ireland.
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